And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be your gods, O Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, These be your gods, O Israel, which have brought you up out of the land of Egypt.
Behold, all his companions shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they are men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; yet they shall fear, and they shall be ashamed together.
And the rest of it he makes into a god, even his sculptured image: he bows down to it, and worships it, and prays to it, and says, Deliver me; for you are my god.
Those who make a sculptured image are all of them vanity; and their delightful things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they do not see, nor know; that they may be ashamed.
Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed:
Why have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled quickly, and look not back: for fear was round about, says the LORD.